About Porter Cemetery
Porter Cemetery is a cemetery near Mayville, Chautauqua County, New York. It lies about 5.1 mi east of Mayville. The grounds sit at about 1,608 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 960986. The nearest other listed cemetery is Volusia Cemetery, about 1.5 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Spitzer Funeral Home in Sherman, about 4.9 mi away. It is one of 120 cemeteries we list in Chautauqua County, and 20 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Chautauqua County dates to 1827.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Mayville. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
42.23295, -79.59964
What Porter Cemetery offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
Nearby cemeteries
- Volusia CemeteryWestfield, NYCemetery1.5 mi
- Sherman CemeteryMayville, NYCemetery5.0 mi
- East Ripley CemeteryWestfield, NYCemetery5.1 mi
- Mayville CemeteryMayville, NYCemetery5.6 mi
- Old Saint James CemeteryWestfield, NYCemetery5.7 mi
- Quincy Rural CemeteryWestfield, NYCemetery5.7 mi
- South Ripley CemeteryWestfield, NYCemetery6.1 mi
- Chautauqua Cemetery4931 West Lake Road, Mayville, NYCemetery6.2 mi
- Westfield CemeteryWestfield, NYCemetery6.6 mi
- Prendergast CemeteryMayville, NYCemetery6.7 mi
Funeral homes near Porter Cemetery
- Spitzer Funeral Home4.9 miFuneral home · Sherman · (716) 761-6739
- Freay Funeral Home5.3 miFuneral home · Mayville · (716) 753-7144
- Mathews Funeral Home6.4 miFuneral home · Ripley · (716) 736-4561
- Mason Funeral Home6.4 miFuneral home · Westfield · (716) 326-2811
- William D Elkin Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · North East · (814) 725-4511
- W Tad Bowers Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · North East · (814) 725-4505
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